In Drills, Staff Pretending to Be Patients Enter City’s Hospitals Complaining of Symptoms

Public and private hospitals around New York are quietly conducting Ebola drills, sending fake patients to test emergency-room staff in the proper methods to identify and safely isolate a person suspected of having the virus.

Key to the protocol is one simple question: Have you traveled recently?

The move to prepare area hospitals and educate health-care workers is largely in response to the increased chance that a patient...

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